The Terrible Waste of MAGA America

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Apr 3, 2024 · 5m

Donald Trump was president for 1,460 days.

If asked by someone in the future to summarize in a small space, the depth and breadth of the collective injury we've sustained as a people and a nation, the word I keep coming back to is waste.

Those 1,460 days were simply a terrible, unforgivable, unthinkable waste.

A waste of time: the countless hours so many people from every walk of life had to spend trying to care for people and rebuild their communities and save lives and champion justice and do good work—all while facing their own president as a daily, formidable adversary.

A waste of…